Exclude categories featured widget amplified

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I have a slider on my site and have used blog posts to create the content for the slider but now I want to exlude these posts from my blog, I have created a category called slider and used the widget to exclude but it's not working.

To exclude it from the blog altogether, go to Genesis settings and on the Blog page template, put in the category ID in the Exclude box.

May I suggest an alternative slider, though? Soliloquy is a premium slider which is super easy to use, and you can create a slider that does not have to link to anything at all, which is what I think you want in your situation. They do offer a lite/free version, so you can try it out, and may not need to purchase it at all, if it does everything you want. Then you don't have to create and try to hide any posts for the slider.

Thanks guys, Robin, I have done all of the above - what I wanted to do is exclude category id 166 but the feature doesn't seem to be working for me, nothing happens when I do it and I've even paid for someone to help with this and they said it's not working.

The reason I used the amplified widget was because I thought it would be another way around it...but appears it's not.

I've had a quick look at Soliloquy and my only reservation is starting from scratch with the slider again and guessing as I'm going...having already paid for help with the other one.

If I install Soliloquy and add the images that I want in the correct order and I want the slider to show exactly as it's currently showing is that possible?

I currently use Simple Hooks and have this code to feature the slider:
<div class="homeslider">
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'homeslider' ); ?>
</div>
Do you know by chance how I would do it for soliloquy?
Thanks,
Jen

Soliloquy is about as easy as it gets, especially if you don't need your slides to link to any pages (or if you do). You just drop your images in and you're done. You can move them around to whatever order you like. All you need to do is tell it what the dimensions of the slides are.

You can add the slider with a shortcode, widget, or hard code it, which is what you're doing with simple hooks, I guess. It tells you what code to use--for example, one on my site would be this:if ( function_exists( 'soliloquy_slider' ) ) soliloquy_slider( '2564' );
I'd say at least try Soliloquy--the free version, at least, and see how it goes. If excluding those from the blog in the Genesis settings isn't working, this will go around it. And if the Genesis settings aren't taking, maybe submit a support ticket on it? Good luck--